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Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop

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Overview

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Recreate traditional painting techniques with digital tools by exploring colors and textures to make vibrant illustrations for children’s books
  • Introduction
  • First Steps
  • The Composition
  • Final Details
  • Final project
Making art for children’s books means working with both young readers, and adults in mind. Adding movements, textures, and happy accidents into your designs is an opportunity to entertain both of them. Children’s book illustrator Eric Castleman specializes in recreating traditional painting techniques with digital tools that delight viewers of all ages. He has worked for brands including Highlights magazine and had his work featured in art galleries.

In this online course, Eric teaches you digital illustration techniques in Photoshop that reintroduce the pleasant mistakes of traditional painting. Learn to tell stories through your illustrations, and create artwork filled with vibrant colors and textures. Remember the kid you were and make art with them in mind!

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Finding Inspiration and Collecting Textures
  • Thumbnail Value Sketches
  • Rough Line Sketches
  • Character Study
  • Final Line Drawing
  • Preparing Layers in Photoshop
  • Adding Color
  • Applying Textures
  • Using Monotone Values
  • Rendering the Background
  • Rendering the Midground 1
  • Rendering the Midground 2
  • Rendering the Midground 3
  • Rendering the Foreground and Final Details 1
  • Rendering the Foreground and Final Details 2
  • Rendering the Foreground and Final Details 3
  • Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop

Taught by

Eric Castleman

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